Human rights protest staged in Plains, p. 3
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Human rights protest staged in Plains, p. 3
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"PLAINS, Ga. - About 150 chanting demonstrators with banners denouncing President Carter’s human rights policy marched through his hometown, demanding freedom for a young black woman convicted of killing a white man she claims tried to rape her.
The Fourth of July rally in Plains had been expected to draw some 1,000 supporters of Dessie Woods, but only 133 stepped off from the tree-shaded lawn of Lebanon Baptist Church for the two-mile march under a scorching southern sun.
Puerto Rican nationalists and black activists demanding disengagement of American forces in Africa swelled the tinny turnout, which was made up mostly of small schoolbus [sic] loads of demonstrators from Georgia and a few northern states. There were also a handful of gay rights protestorsm [sic] in the march.
The protestors chanted “Free Dessie Woods” and hoisted banners that said “Carter’s human right is a lie. Free Dessie Woods and all political prisoners.”
Miss Woods was convicted of killing insurance slaesman [sic] Ronnie Horne of Rentz, Ga., in June, 1975, in Pulaski County. She is serving Horne of Rentz, Ga., in June, 1975 in Pulaski County. She is serving concurrent 10-year and 12-year terms for manslaughter and attempted robbery.
The protesters came within a block of Carter’s home on the outskirts of Plains, marching in sight of the secret service stand that bars tourists from the presidential compound.
The march stopped in the center of Plains, near the railroad depot that served as Carter’s picturesque campaign headquarters in 197., and the demonstrators chanted “Africa for Africans.”
That theme was borne by several of he [sic] marchers’ banners, demanding “smash cholonial [sic] violence: and “U.S. out of Africa.”
-. It was the third national protest in Plains since Carter became president.
The Marchers passed Billy Carter’s service station and the Carter family’s peanut warehouse, crossing in front of the red, white and blue sign that proclaims “Plians [sic], Ga., home of Jimmy Carter, our president.”
The unusually large holiday crowd of curious tourists snapped pictures of the marchers, but there was no interference.
No members of the Carter family were seen along the parage [sic] route, which was closely guarded by iniformed [sic] Georgia state patrolmen [sic], about half of them black and plainclothes police."
The Fourth of July rally in Plains had been expected to draw some 1,000 supporters of Dessie Woods, but only 133 stepped off from the tree-shaded lawn of Lebanon Baptist Church for the two-mile march under a scorching southern sun.
Puerto Rican nationalists and black activists demanding disengagement of American forces in Africa swelled the tinny turnout, which was made up mostly of small schoolbus [sic] loads of demonstrators from Georgia and a few northern states. There were also a handful of gay rights protestorsm [sic] in the march.
The protestors chanted “Free Dessie Woods” and hoisted banners that said “Carter’s human right is a lie. Free Dessie Woods and all political prisoners.”
Miss Woods was convicted of killing insurance slaesman [sic] Ronnie Horne of Rentz, Ga., in June, 1975, in Pulaski County. She is serving Horne of Rentz, Ga., in June, 1975 in Pulaski County. She is serving concurrent 10-year and 12-year terms for manslaughter and attempted robbery.
The protesters came within a block of Carter’s home on the outskirts of Plains, marching in sight of the secret service stand that bars tourists from the presidential compound.
The march stopped in the center of Plains, near the railroad depot that served as Carter’s picturesque campaign headquarters in 197., and the demonstrators chanted “Africa for Africans.”
That theme was borne by several of he [sic] marchers’ banners, demanding “smash cholonial [sic] violence: and “U.S. out of Africa.”
-. It was the third national protest in Plains since Carter became president.
The Marchers passed Billy Carter’s service station and the Carter family’s peanut warehouse, crossing in front of the red, white and blue sign that proclaims “Plians [sic], Ga., home of Jimmy Carter, our president.”
The unusually large holiday crowd of curious tourists snapped pictures of the marchers, but there was no interference.
No members of the Carter family were seen along the parage [sic] route, which was closely guarded by iniformed [sic] Georgia state patrolmen [sic], about half of them black and plainclothes police."
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Baltimore Afro-American
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1978-7-15
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N/A, “Human rights protest staged in Plains, p. 3,” African American Fourth of July, accessed April 28, 2024, https://africanamerican4th.omeka.net/items/show/268.